Collar-attached shirt



- Feb. 5, 1957 M. FREED COLLAR-ATTACHED SHIRT Filed Jan. 4, 1954 l lllllllllllml Inventor t O rney nited States 3mm COLLAR-ATTACHED SHIRT Max Free-d, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Application January 4, 1954, Serial No. 402,031

2 Claims. (Cl. 2-416) This invention relates to improvements in a collarattached shirt and appertains particularly to a novel collar structure therefor that lies around the wearer as a shawl rather than standing on a neck-encircling band.

An object of the invention is to provide an attached collar. whose ends come together automatically in a neat V at the front.

A further object of the invention is to provide an attached collar structure in which integral bib extensions of novel form lie flat and comfortably over the upper front of the wearers chest to assure perfect positioning of the collar even after successive launderings.

A still further object of the invention is to provide a collar assembly for a collar-attached shirt secured in a new manner to the shirt body so that it exhibits maximum dressiness and perfect fit for the life of thegarment.

It is usual practice to provide a collar-attached shirt with the fold down type of collar mounted on or supported by a neck band in which the latter is intended to encircle the wearers neck like a low cylinder and from the top of which the outer fold of collar turns down. Even when the collar and neck band portions are integral and without seam or connection along or near the top fold edge, the effect of the substantially vertically disposed, circumferential neck band is the same, for with the lines of stress running circumferentially and vertically the result is that it is free to trun or partially rotate on the neck and the junction of the collar fronts frequently goes off center. A yet more common annoyance is for the neck band to rise even slightly at the front occasioning the separation of the collar fronts and the destroying of the neat V-formation with the result that the garment appears ill-fitting and most uncomfortable.

I overcome these disadvantages by forming a collar assembly in which flaring or widening bib-like extensions continue down the front of the garment lyingflat over the wearers upper chest and connecting them in such manner to the shirt that being integral with the turn down collar they determine the lie of the collar and having a downward pull at the front in the nature of a shawl, they assure the constant neat closing of the collar fronts in the approved b and cause it to assume and retain perfect centering.

To the accomplishment of these and related objects as shall become apparent as the description proceeds, the inventon resides in the construction, combination and arrangement of parts as shall be hereinafter more fully described, iilustrated in the accompanying drawings and pointed out in the claims hereunto appended.

The invention will be best understood and can be more clearly described when reference is had to the drawings forming a part of this disclosure wherein like characters indicate like parts throughout the several views.

In the drawings:

Figure l is a front view of a collar-attached shirt embodying a preferred embodiment of the invention;

W a; 2,779,946 mg Patented Feb. 5, 1957 Figure 2 is a plan showing the front of the collar assembly; and

Figure 3 is a plan showing the back of the collar assembly, with a portion of the under layer turned back.

In the embodiment of my invention here illustrated it will be noted that the new collar structure is shown in conjunction with a usual-type collar-attached dress or negiigee shirt open all the way down the front but it is usable with a sport shirt or one in which the front opening extends only part way down from the neck aperture and either with or Without a fastening at the neck such as the ordinary button and buttonhole. The shown dress shirt 2 includes the regular body formed of left and right front sections 2 and 3 that overlap slightlyand button together down the front median, a back section 4 seen here only through the break in front section 2, a yoke 5, and sleeves 6. The yoke 5 and front sections 2. and 3 are so formed that when assembled they provide a substantially circular neck-accommodating aperture that may be opened by separating the ends defined by the overlapped edges of the front sections. Into such a standard or conventional shirt I insert or attach my special collar in a particular way to produce a unique and improved article.

The collar assembly is a relatively long narrow unit '7 of generally arcuate form and is in the nature of a shawl in that it extends around the back of the wearers neck, with its opposite ends passint over the shoulders and dropping down the front even to the bottom of the shirt sections 2 and 3 so that the entire body of the shirt serves to anchor the ends and cause the neck-surrounding part to lie always in a comfortable and perfectly c .red position.

This collar structure '7 includes a centrally located collar part 8 defined by an elongated and sweeping arcuate inner edge 9, and an outer edge whose mid-part arcs slightly in the opposite direction and provides the free edge to of the turn down collar, substantially parallel straight edges 1? extending in from opposite ends thereof for about half the width of the collar part thereat and that provide the front ends or tabs of the turn down part of the collar and together form the tie-exposing v at the front when the collar is being worn, a

short step LE2 of about one half inch for button and buttonhole extends outwardly at substantially right angles from the inner ends of such parallel straight edges and iherebeyond the edges flares angularly outwardly as at 1'3 to terminate in an end 14 at right angles thereto a distance from the turn down part of the collar and at a point parallel to the tangent at the end of the arcuate inner. edge 9. From, each end 14 of this central collar part 3, an elongated tape 1'5 may continue of sufiicient length to reach to the bottom edge of the respective front sections 2 and 3 of the shirt.

The central section 8 outlined by the edges 9, 10, 11, 12, 1'3 and consists of an outer layer X of the shirting material and a second layer of suitable backing or lining material Y and additionally an under layer Z which may also be of shirting material is applied to that portion that serves as the down turned fold. of the collar and the neck-encircling strip and is defined by the edges lid, 11, 12, about three-quarters of an inch of i3, a double reverse curve 16 across its lower edge that coincides midway with the arcuate contour of the underlying arcuate edge 9. The outer layer X and lining Y are joined or stitched together about their entire perimeter and the third ply or under layer Z is likewise secured by the marginal stitching around the edges 10, l1, l2 and part of 13 but is free from the central collar section 8 across its entire lower edge 16. The collar assembly I thus provides (1) a double fold collar consisting of the turn down outer fold a and upstanding inner fold or neck part a" by doubling the central collar section 8, and especially that portion conforming to the outline of inner ply Z, along a line drawn between the edges 1.2; (2) the relatively wide and lined bibs b that form a smooth stress-conveying bosom; and (3) the shirt-anchoring tapes 0,

This collar structure is secured in the shirt 1 by stitch ing the entire free lower edge 16 of the under layer Z to the neck aperture of the shirt formed by the top edges of the front sections 2 and 3 and the yoke 55 and also connecting the lower edge 9 of the two ply part of the collar to the yoke 5 from shoulder seam to shoulder seam and securing the bibs b and tapes c to the respective free edges of the front shirt sections 2 and 3 from the neck aperture to the bottoms thereof by stitching along the edge I3 and the continuing side only of the tapes 14 and across the bottom or free end of the latter, leaving the lower or inner arcuate edge 9 of the collar part beyond the yoke at the shoulder seams and the entire continuing inner edge of the tapes 14 free. In actual assembly, the outer collar layer and lining may be stitched across the top, and the under layer stitched to the neck aperture and then the lined outer layer and under layer joined and the assembly stitched around its perimeter to the bottom edge of the shirt fronts as above set forth and finally the lined collar part tacked to the yoke from shoulder seam to shoulder seam.

From the foregoing description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, it will be manifest that a collar attached shirt is provided that Will fulfil all the necessary requirements of such a garment, but as many changes could be made in the above description and many apparently widely different embodiments of the invention may be constructed Within the scope of the appended claims, without departing from the spirit or scope thereof, it is intended that all matters contained in the said accompanying specification and drawings shall be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limitative or restrictive sense.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new is:

1. A collar-attached shirt having a usual body consisting of left and right front sections separable on the front median, a back section, a yoke across the top of said front sections and said yoke defining a neck-accommodating opening, and an elongated, arcuate, shawl-like collar structure consisting of inner and outer plys each comprising a fold down collar portion providing both where it lies across above said bibs, said under ply being secured to the neck-accommodating opening of the shirt for the entire perimeter thereof by the free edge of said under ply, said outer ply with integral bib portions being secured to said shirt by only the outer edges or" said bibs and tapes for the full length thereof and by its inner edge for only the length thereof along said yoke, whereby said bibs underlie the upper front portion of said shirt body to provide a smooth bosom base for the front of the collar and together with said tapes, that anchor to the shirt body, exert a downward pull on the front of the collar assuring its proper centering and closing.

2. A collar-attached shirt having a usual body consisting of left and right front sections separable on the front median, a back section, a yoke across the top of said back section, and sleeves, the top of said front sections and said yoke defining a neck-accommodating open ing, and an elongated, arcuate, shawl-like collar structure consisting of inner and outer plys each comprising a fold down collar portion providing both the outer downturned fold and the inner neck-encircling fold, and the outer ply having tapered bibs formed integral on opposite ends thereof and elongated tapes continuing from the free ends of said tapered bibs; said integral fold down collar portion and bibs being a two-ply lined unit and an under ply being attached to the bibbed outer ply around the outer margin and free therefrom across its inner edge where it lies across above said bibs, said collar portion being secured to the shirt accommodating opening for the entire perimeter thereof by the free edge of said under ply and additionally by the integral collar and bib portion only for the length thereof along said yoke and wherein said tapered bibs and elongated tapes are secured to the free separable edges of said respective front sections of the shirt along only one edge from the neck-accommodating aperture down to the bottom, namely their outer edge, and across the bottom free end of the tapes, with the inner edges of said two-ply lined integral collar and bib units and said tapes, from the ends of the attachment of the former to the shirt yoke to the ends of said tapes, free of attachment to the shirt body, whereby said bibs underlie the upper front portion of said shirt body to provide a smooth bosom base for the front of the collar and together with said tapes, that anchor to the shirt body, exert a downward pull on the front of the collar assuring its proper centering and closing.

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